"Bruna Ferreira, the mother of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's nephew, said she made a mistake by trusting her in-laws after she was arrested by ICE and cast by the administration as a criminal and absent parent. Ferreira was arrested on November 12 by ICE and faces deportation to Brazil, after overstaying a visa from when she was a child in 1998."
"She shares an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, the press secretary's brother, and claimed in an exclusive video interview with the Washington Post from a detention center in Louisiana on Sunday that at one point she even asked Karoline Leavitt to be her son's godmother. I asked Karoline to be godmother over my only sister, she said Thursday. I made a mistake there, in trusting."
"The White House insists Ferreira was neither close to the family nor involved in her son's upbringing. Officials distributed a Department of Homeland Security statement describing her as a criminal. Ferreira called the characterization insulting and disgusting, adding that Leavitt's defense of anti-immigration raids sits uneasily with the family reality she says she knows. According to the newspaper, however, court filings, family photographs, and her own account suggest a far more entangled relationship."
Bruna Ferreira was arrested on November 12 by ICE and faces deportation to Brazil for overstaying a visa obtained as a child in 1998. She shares an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, the press secretary's brother. Ferreira said she once asked Karoline Leavitt to be her son's godmother and said she made a mistake trusting her in-laws. The White House said Ferreira was neither close to the family nor involved in the child's upbringing and circulated a DHS statement labeling her a criminal. Court filings, family photographs, and Ferreira's account indicate a more entangled relationship and nearly a decade of shared caregiving responsibilities. Michael Leavitt said he had no involvement in her arrest.
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